G2A PAY charges an inactivity fee after someone has not logged into their G2A.COM account for 180 days. An e-mail is sent 3 days before the charge to remind the user and allow them to log in and easily avoid the fee. This fee is €1 and is taken from the user’s G2A Wallet (if there are no funds on the Wallet, PAY does not charge anything). Another €1 will be taken each month that the user stays inactive. If they log in, the timer resets itself and they have another 180 days before they are charged. If there are no funds left (or no funds to begin with) on their G2A Wallet, then the account is set to inactive. All a user needs to do to reactivate it is log back into G2A.COM. We never force the user to make a transaction or do anything with the funds. It’s just to let the system know the user is active, and the account has not been abandoned.

Why do we do this? To try and explain in as few words as we can:

It costs money to upkeep accounts (IT infrastructure, server maintenance, etc.) and if someone does not use the account, it doesn’t make sense to upkeep it. We don’t require these users to buy anything, just log in at least once every 6 months, just so that we know they are still with us. As a financial institution we are also monitored, supervised, and audited and have to back up and explain all our accounts and the funds stored on these accounts. Once an account may be considered “abandoned,” we take certain steps to make sure we are in line with all regulations, jurisdictions and laws.

Ok, I'm calling bullshit on this. Anyone with even the slightest IT knowledge knows this is total BS and there is no upkeep to accounts. An account (active or inactive) is essentially just data on some database stored somewhere, there is no upkeep per say (except for maybe datastorage, but that is a tiny negligence, for a single user, that will be far outstripped by any profit made from active accounts and users).

Another quite clear reason you can see this is BS is because NOBODY ELSE DOES THIS... If "inactive" accounts really did have an upkeep cost, don't you think that the other thousands of companies would also need to have similar policies as this? Steam, Amazon, Facebook, Playstation, Xbox, etc.

This is 100% just a cheap and dirty trick to try and generate more funds and money for G2A, no other reason for it, dont believe their lies!

That’s not true, I have 3 different bank accounts which I keep inactive. All 3 from different banks. One Lloyd’s, one RBS, one UBS. I’ve had them all for over 5 years and the only active thing about the accounts is the interest every six months. I haven’t tapped into the funds or even touched the cards in years so if banks do this it must have a 10 year minimum or something.

Unless you’re talking about obscure banks or American banks in which case I would be out of my league but as far as my experience says, this doesn’t occur.

Also just to point out in case of different rules each of the British accounts has over £5,000 and the Swiss account has over CHF9,000 just in case there are rules like over 10k or 100k

That's not true. It does cost storage and backup. As someone who programs databases for a living, caveating that I have no idea about their architecture, I'd estimate that having that one extra record would cost something like $1 every thousand years.

Except like most things that try to calm waters, the usual retards are silenced, and people with sense are left to speak due to the backlash being far more reasonably responded to with actual logic and truth.

I'm not defending G2A, but you are not entirely correct. Hosting services don't charge based on the number of database entries but they do charge you based on how much space your database takes up and if you're hosting the website yourself then having enough storage for your database does impact you financially. Therefore if you have enough entries to go beyond your currently available amount of storage and can't further optimize your database structure to more efficiently store the data then adding more user entries will increase your upkeep costs.

However even then the additional costs are peanuts compared to how much money G2A likely makes.

Not in my country they do not. Maybe you need better/more sensible laws there. Banks make their money by lending out money in more static accounts and earning interest on those loans and they earn a lot of money doing it as the scale they operate. They do not need to be charging for inactive/less-active accounts. In the case of G2A it is even worse as an inactive account is just a little bit of data in a database, nothing more.

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